Job matchmakers: Preference Personnel

Candice Dietz has been matching people with jobs for 22 years at the Fargo employment agency she launched in November 1987.

Preference Personnel, 2600 9th Ave. S., has grown from Dietz and two former partners to 15 employees.

“We opened strictly as a direct-hire placement firm,” and expanded into the temporary-hire market in 1990, said Dietz, company president.

That’s when her husband, CEO Larry Dietz, joined the business after serving as chief financial officer of a Fargo trucking company.

Today, Preference Personnel works with a variety of clients, from first-time job holders to retired baby boomers seeking a job to supplement Social Security and declining retirement investments, he said.